The Man Who Died Twice

This book is all about companionship.

Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series is set in a retirement home, with retirees from various backgrounds coming together to solve crimes. It’s a concept that could easily have been saccharine or patronizing, but Osman delivers characters we care about and relationships that are fully believable.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron are, simply put, brilliantly realized. They have all the complex thoughts and conflicting emotions to feel real and the basic human decency to make readers care about them.

Their friendships with one another and their relationships with the wider world all come together beautifully… show more.

With everything going on in the world these days, I find that more and more, I not only need a break from reality, but I need to laugh more.

The Thursday Murder Club series has become a go-to for my three must-haves: an escape from the world, a page-turning whodunit, and lots of laughs along the way.

A good mystery should keep the reader guessing whodunit, but I find that too often, I’ve figured out whodunit very early into a book. This was not the case with The Man Who Died Twice. It’s a page-turning mystery that not only kept… show more.